Manifesting Destiny — Saundra Crum Akers

When Dr. Kenton Foster, a child psychologist in Washington Court House, Ohio, becomes concerned about strange dreams he's been having, he goes to his own therapist, Dr. Steve Brennan, who has recently moved to the community. Kent believes his dreams indicate that he might at some future time become a pedophile, although he's never done anything like that in the past, nor is he attracted to children. He is desperate to prevent such an action, but he doesn't want to lose his practice which he believes is critical to his destiny. This action opens up another set of problems for him because if his therapist believes that he poses a danger to another, the therapist had a duty to warn that third party. Meanwhile two young girls, one of whom is his patient, come up missing; everyone thinks at first that they're runaways. Both have been refusing to attend school and one girl threatened to run away from home if she was forced to return. However, the mood of the town changes when one of the girls is found murdered. Did Kenton Foster harm the girls, even he has his doubts, or is he right when he says that the answer to their disappearance lies somewhere in the school they refused to attend? This is the question that he struggles with as he tries to find the truth and save the girl who is still missing.